Amidst the Tsunami Exercise (IOWave25) scheduled in several coastal districts today, Director General of the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) Maj. Gen. Sampath Kotuwegoda (Retd.) yesterday revealed ...

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States and International Organisations of the Holy See, paid ...

GENEVA, Feb 4 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has outlined its role in post-tsunami Sri Lanka amid continuing efforts to distribute non-food relief items to the displaced and to finalise a ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, October 25 (UNHCR) - Like so many other people in Sri Lanka, Mrs. A.L. Sulahaummah will never forget 26 December 2004, the day the tsunami struck, killing more than 200,000 people ...

A retired Sri Lankan archbishop who served as the general secretary of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conference (FABC) and on the board of directors of Radio Veritas has died at the age of 90.

An example image from Cornell's Sri Lanka GIS web site, showing the locations of damaged schools and hospitals on about 40 miles of the eastern coast of the island, centered on the destroyed ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The skeletal remains of 29 people have been found near the site where the Dec. 26 tsunami (search) swept away a commuter train in one of the single worst losses of life from the ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Church and temple bells rang across Sri Lanka on Tuesday for the victims of the 2004 tsunami but commemoration ceremonies in rebel-held areas, which were the worst hit, were ...

Steve Inskeep talks to Steve Matthews of the relief organization World Vision. Morning Edition talked with him last year, just after the deadly tsunami struck Sri Lanka. Matthews has returned to the ...